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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
row house
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Rob DeGraff ditched his roomy house and 10, 000 square-foot lot for a row house with a patch of yard.
▪ The apartment to which she and Uncle Allen welcomed us was in a declining row house on Wakeman Avenue.
▪ The old row house is just a memory.
▪ Then footage of police, some in uniform, some not, gathered on the stoop of a row house.
▪ They still lived in the row house with their 1955 station wagon.
Wiktionary
row house

alt. A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof n. A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof

WordNet
row house

n. a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls [syn: town house]

Wikipedia
Row House (Hallowell, Maine)

The Row House is a historic multiunit tenement house at 106-114 2nd Street in downtown Hallowell, Maine. Built in 1840, it is one of a small number of row houses built in 19th-century Maine, and is believed to be the oldest built of wood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Usage examples of "row house".

Twenty minutes later they arrived at the address, a row house in a somewhat shabby neighborhood.

I parked and Damon and I walked into a dilapidated row house down near the Anacostia.

The row house was three stories, and most of the windows were boarded.

The row house in the slum in Philadelphia had been filled with tables.

Although it was a prosperous family it was difficult to tear away from the little row house with the white porch on Holt Street in which all the children were born.

She had this little row house downtown and there was an extra bedroom where me and Alexander could sleep.

Circumstance looked out the window in the front room of the row house.

Nina Quids' body had been found in a battered row house in one of the city's most impoverished, destroyed, and dismaying neighborhoods.

It was nearly two in the morning when we finally made our way out of the row house.

Once, while still a young girl living in the row house, she had seen a man in the yard at the end of the street whipping a dog and had never forgotten the poor dog's eyes.

Gordonson lived in a three-story brick row house next to a large tavern.

Brazil's so-called girlfriend had been a seventy-one-year-old woman who rented a row house to him.

Andy had an odd feeling that he couldn't place, and as he returned to his small row house and fixed a bowl of cereal, he had the eerie sensation that he was being watched.

Richmond police headquarters was downtown but not far from the Fan District where Andy's tiny rented row house was located.